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I Know these Halls ... these Walls ... this Stone!
Hello, LiveJournal, how have you been? I read you every day - what little of you there is! - but I haven't written one word in you since I finished my house plans. Who knew that would be the real End of Fandom???
Probably the proper thing these days would be to post feels on my tumblr but that just doesn't feel right to me. *grumbles about kids ( Read more... ) -
Why does this sound so familiar?
How long has it been - seven years?!?!! - since I was immersed, absorbed, spending hours of my time in the ridiculous but oh-so-entertaining maelstrom of Harry Potter ship debate? I hardly ever think about it any more, but sometimes something reminds me and it all comes flooding back. That just happened when I read thisIt's an article called "A ( Read more... ) -
2012 Book/Movie List
BOOKS
January:
1. The Unstrung Harp, Edward Gorey, N, F
2. Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris, N, N
February:
3. God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens, N, N
4. Touch Not the Cat, Mary Stewart, R, F
5. This Rough Magic, Mary Stewart, R, F
March:
6. The Borrowers, Mary Norton, R, F
7. The Borrowers Afield, Mary Norton, R, F
8. The Borrowers ( Read more... ) -
2011 Reading/Watching Report
Okay, this is the fourth year I've kept this list. I reversed the recent downward trend in number of books read, but mostly by reading a lot of crap light, undemanding novels.
2011 totals
Books read: 75 (up from 31 in 2010 and 47 in 2009, but down from 106 in 2008 ( Read more... ) -
Albus Dumbledore and Justin Alastair
Finally! I knew J.K. Rowling must have read Heyer and here's proof:
My mother had everything Georgette Heyer ever wrote, so I whipped through those, too, when I was a pre-teen, and I FINALLY found a plain heroine there, too (Phoebe, in ‘Sylvester’, who also - hooray! - happened to be a writer).
Or has she said this before, and I'm forgetting ( Read more... ) -
Links Totally Count as a Post
First, SQUEEEEEE!
Second, egads!
We're going to Big Bend in five days. Any advice for maximum enjoyment?